Without really noticing, our society has gone through a revolutionary
change. In the last 30 years the world as we knew it has been moved
from an analogue to a digital foundation. We have become completely
dependent upon this new foundation. Some of the effects of this revolution
we see, many we can't even start to think about. Social encounters in
physical space are facilitated by all human senses. All our impressions
combined help us build up an impression of someone. Once we get to know
someone, we get a feel of someone's identity.

In cyberspace, everything
is reduced to bits of information, transported across utterly unknown
digital pathways. Is the person we interact with on Skype the same person
we shook hands with yesterday? Can we detect someone else digitally
impersonating someone you know 'in the flesh'? When you have been impersonated,
can you defend against it? Will our online activities follow us through
the whole life? Things we did as young people play a role at every job
interview? This may look bleak, but at this point in time, we can't
even imagine the effect of the digital revolution.

The positive effects of
the digital revolution are endless. For hundreds of years we augmented
ourselves, using glasses, hearing aids and artificial limbs to overcome
our biological limits. More fully integrating digital technology enables
us to truly transcend them. Instead of just our five senses, we will
develop new senses and develop new ways of interacting with reality,
people and tools. This will have an even larger impact on the way we
live and work together.

Michael
Hagen,
CEO, IDcheckerCan you be in control of your online identity?

Nowadays we can't imagine
a world without Internet anymore. We use the Internet for Social media,
shopping, search engine etc and because of that we share a whole lot
of information about ourselves. Once the information is there, it
is nearly impossible to get it of the Internet. Is there a way we
are able to change this? I think there is hope for all of us!

Balázs
Bodó,
economist, piracy researcher at
the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Living in the Panopticon

The story of having a
double identity / multiple personas is one of the most basic toposes
of human imagination. We dont need to be Dr. Jekyll (and Mr.
Hyde), or Superman (and Clarke Kent) to realize that most of us have
more than one face. One we show in public, one, we prefer to keep
private, one, we consciously maintain, another we unwillingly hint
at, etc. The Internet makes it hard to compartmentalize these personas,
since we all live in the perfect prison, in the Panopticon.
Will Jeremy Benthams dream Morals reformed  health
preserved  industry invigorated  instruction diffused
 public burthens lightened  Economy seated, as it were,
upon a rock  the gordian knot of the poor-law not cut, but untied
 all by a simple idea in Architecture! will finally be
achieved now?

We are at a crossroads
in history: never before have people had such access to information
and the ability to communicate with others as the Internet now provides.
Conversely, never before have governments, intelligence agencies and
corporations had such an ability to track our every move, thought
and word, with social media such as Facebook providing access the
spies could only dream of 15 years ago. As technology continues to
evolve, how do we, as citizens, preserve our basic freedoms?

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I started my career as a
purchasing and logistic manager back in 1993. From 1997-2007 I lead
my employment agency DyFlex, which I successfully sold to In Person
in 2008. Since 2005 I've been building the concept of IDchecker, which
is to create a service who will help consumers and companies to be safer
online. Our goal is to free the true potential of Internet.

IDchecker checks and
processes digitalised identification documents so that the user can
easily establish the identity of a potential employee, customer or visitor,
in person or online.www.idchecker.nl

Balázs
BodóEconomist,
piracy researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University
of Amsterdam

He was a Fulbright Visiting Researcher at Stanford Universitys
Center for Internet and Society in 2006/7 and a Fellow at the Center
between 2006 and 2012. Since 2012 he has been a Fulbright Fellow at
the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since
2013 he is based in Amsterdam, working as a researcher and a Marie Curie
Fellow at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University
of Amsterdam.

Before moving to the Netherlands, he was deeply involved in the development
of the Hungarian internet culture. He was the project lead for Creative
Commons Hungary. He is a member of the National Copyright Expert Group.
As an assistant professor at the Budapest University of Technology and
Economics, he helped to established and led the universitys Masters
Program in Cultural Industries. He has advised several public and private
institutions on digital archives, content distribution, online communities,
business development. His academic interests include copyright and economics,
piracy, media regulation, peer-to-peer communities, underground libraries,
digital archives, informal media economies. His most recent book is
on the role of P2P piracy in the Hungarian cultural ecosystem.www.ivir.nl

Annie MachonDirector, LEAP Europe. Formerly MI5

Annie Machon was an intelligence
officer for the UK's MI5 in the 1990s, before leaving to help blow the
whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spy agencies.

She is now a writer, media
commentator, political campaigner, and international public speaker
on a variety of related issues: the war on terrorism, the war on drugs,
and the war on the internet.

Digital technology is rapidly transforming our society, our business
practices and lives. Technology is a driver, but not the real issue.
Adoption by individuals, companies and governments is far more important.
But how can we manage the technology, the adoption process and the effect
on our businesses and private lives, without getting lost in that change?